OT: Archiving data/video/movies/photos/oral history

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Tue Jun 6 00:32:37 2000

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 12:16:50AM -0400, William Donzelli wrote:
>#6743? Rare piece...

Dunno the #, but I think I paid about $2-$3 to Fair Radio for the knob, in
the early 80s, they had plenty of command set accessories. I wonder what
they have left, they're certainly still in business, although their prices
have gone up bigtime.

>> I hope I find the ARC-5 itself next.
>
>If you find it, look at the snapslides. IBM made them.

Are those the nasty latches that hold the top on? Because ...

>And these days, those hams that modify Command Sets are often found with
>thier mouths filled with cement.

Then I guess I'm going to hell! The top was all screwed up on mine when I
got it, the slides were mangled horribly, so I drilled them all out and put
in pretty (I thought) brass thumbnuts instead, and drilled some vent holes
while I was at it for some reason. In my defense, this was almost 20 years
ago and they were hardly rare at the time! I think I paid $10 or less for
the rig, which I found in the local want ads.

On the plus side, I have a BC-223-AX transmitter which my grandfather
supposedly schlepped back from somewhere (I don't buy the story, for his
war I'd expect spark coils and coherers!!!), which appears to be brand new
(still has the packing cardboard over the row of tubes), the only things
that have happened to it are a bent connector, and the tuning card(s) seem
to have walked off since I got it (hmm, I think I know which ex-roommate to
suspect!!!). Don't know anything about it though, BC means signal corps right?
It has the same annoying latches, only bigger and a lot harder to move...

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Tue Jun 06 2000 - 00:32:37 BST